Duty Manager
Listed on 2026-10-23
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Management
General Management, Operations Management, Hotel Management
GLL is currently recruiting a Duty Manager to join The Queens Diamond Jubilee Centre, Rugby. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Duty Manager, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Duty Manager job, it's a career.
As a Duty Manager, you will be passionate about the leisure industry. A Duty Manager’s role is highly varied; you could be doing anything from unlocking the leisure centre and setting up, to ordering supplies and checking everything is perfect for your customers. Then, once the day is in full swing, Duty Managers ensure it’s all running as it should be – handling customer queries, managing your team, and ensuring the successful operation of the gym, sports hall, and other facilities.
Your own development is just as important, as we’ll train you to sharpen your skills in this diverse
Duty Manager role.
1st January 2027 start date
Duty Managers are fast-thinkers, calm under pressure, responsible, and natural with people from all walks of life; this is your chance to progress as a Duty Manager.
What you’ll do:
Maintain a good and positive image of the centre to customers and the public by providing a welcoming, helpful, and professional operational service.
Assist customers with the use of the facilities and activities and encourage maximum use of the Centre.
Prepare areas and equipment for sessions as appropriate.
Responsible for the efficient and effective control of the day-to-day operations and service of the centre, ensuring that security, general cleanliness, customer supervision, and equipment checks are maintained.
Maintain all ‘good housekeeping’ systems and assist management to effect improvement plans for energy conservation and resource maximisation.
Supervise all staff on shift, effectively and efficiently allocating work and carrying out any other duties as required commensurate with the post’s level of responsibility.
Ensure all members of the team are effectively supervised and that all people management procedures are effectively operated within the team (e.g. recruitment, absence reporting, qualification maintenance, appraisals, discipline, etc).
What you need:
A can-do attitude.
Ability to maintain a good and positive image of the centre to customers and the public by providing a welcoming, helpful, and professional operational service.
Assist customers with the use of the facilities and activities and encourage maximum use of the Centre.
Prepare areas and equipment for sessions as appropriate.
Responsible for the efficient and effective control of the day-to-day operations and service of the centre, ensuring that security, general cleanliness, customer supervision, and equipment checks are maintained.
Maintain all ‘good housekeeping’ systems and assist management to effect improvement plans for energy conservation and resource maximisation.
Supervise all staff on shift, effectively and efficiently allocating work and carrying out any other duties as required commensurate with the post’s level of responsibility.
Ensure all members of the team are effectively supervised and that all people management procedures are effectively operated within the team (e.g. recruitment, absence reporting, qualification maintenance, appraisals, discipline, etc).
As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career and job variety like nowhere else.
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
This is a Full time permanent position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role.
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